It’s an incredibly gutsy move from a company that in the two months since its much doubted Indiegogo campaign ended, has spun out only more smoke and obfuscation. But sometimes you encounter idiocy so audacious that you just have to sit back and enjoy the ride.

The last we heard from Healbe — the $1 million Indiegogo scampaigning, scientifically impossible wristband making, Russian shysters — the GoBe wristband was going to ship in August, two months past its admittedly tight June deadline. Pushing the date out, it promised to release a country by country shipping schedule, which it hasn’t.

Two weeks ago we had some confusing movement on this. A blog post on Healbe’s website declared cryptically on June 4 that “we are thrilled to announce our upcoming partnership with two major medical institutions in Russia and the U.S.” (I too am thrilled to announce my upcoming marriage to Scarlett Johannson.)

No indication was given as to why the institutions behind these independent tests were kept secret, or when the resulting tests would being done. It’s not commercially sensitive information. Instead, we were promised, “more details about the testing program in the coming weeks…”

But as everything in planet Healbe, who really knows when this will eventuate. The previous teasing that review units would be sent out to journalists to demo hasn’t been mentioned since the original scampaign closed.

Healbe has made a huge ballyhoo about its app being approved by the Apple store, but one week after it was supposed to be available for download, it remains nowhere to be found. It has also bucked crowdfunding convention by not giving a lick of real insight about what its manufacturing journey has looked like.

No one has conclusively seen the Healbe GoBe working. Independent scientific tests have not materialized. Even anecdotal independent evaluation — save for Digital Trends epic journalistic fail — have not arrived. The company is already late for delivery. The most we know from Healbe is that the GoBe is allegedly being made somewhere in China, by God knows who.

So what happens now? Damn the proof! Just sell more! Now! Dial up another $200,000!

Two possibilities exist here. Maybe Healbe have bent the rules of science and are just in no hurry to show proof of their miracle to the world and want to give more people the privilege of buying one, now.

Facebook has introduced Scrapbook, a new feature that allows parents to share and collect images of their children in one place without requiring them to worry about tagging their kids’ face with each other’s names just to make sure they don’t miss what the other person has posted. [Source: Facebook]

“For all the clumsy rhetorical lip service [former Yahoo News head] Guy Vidra pays to The New Republic’s hallowed intellectual traditions, this is what his vision of a nimble digital news product finally translates into: a vaguely journalistic veneer strategically designed to conceal a rancid interior of ‘elevated’ advertising.”

Indian e-commerce company Flipkart is said to be raising $600 million in its latest bid to compete with Amazon. The company is also said to have garnered a higher valuation with this funding round — quite the feat, considering it was previously valued at around $11.5 billion. [Source: The Economic Times]

Here comes another unicorn: Sprinklr, a New York-based marketing company, has raised $46 million at a $1.17 billion valuation. The funds will be used to help the 700-person company expand its marketing platform. [Source: Fortune]

Curator, the tool Twitter created so the media could find and share tweets with its audience, is now available to the public. Because if there’s anything people wanted to see more of, it’s tweets randomly inserted into blog posts, television spots, and other forms of media. [Source: TechCrunch]

A court in France has decided not to ban Uber’s low-cost services until the country’s highest appeals court, or its supreme court, weigh in on the constitutionality of a new transport law. [Source: The Wall Street Journal]

Tinder is refocusing on its spam-fighting efforts in the wake of reports that movie studios are using the service to promote their movies, scammers are attempting to steal information via the app, and pranksters have created tools that trick heterosexual men into flirting with each other. [Source: The Verge]

Uber offers drivers whose accounts have been deactivated a choice: attend a class that requires them to pass an exam, or take a class that doesn’t. The latter has been informed by Uber employees, and the company has sent thousands of drivers to it, according to a report from BuzzFeed. Why is that a problem? Because Uber isn’t supposed to provide its drivers with formal training; doing so makes them bona fide employees, not independent contractors. [Source: BuzzFeed]

Flipboard users will now be able to collect articles and share them via private magazines visible only to members of certain groups. The feature is aimed at students working in the same class, companies sharing press coverage, and other groups that might want an easy way to share Web pages with each other without having to use public tools like Facebook or Twitter. [Source: Flipboard]

T-Mobile has tasked its customers with creating a real-world coverage map that makes it easier to tell where its service works and where it doesn’t. Instead of guessing at where its customers will get service — which is what other carriers do, the company claims — it’s asking people to verify its predictions so it can be more honest with consumers. [Source: T-Mobile]